This article was written 小萝莉影视鈥檚 news partner, The Banner Montgomery, and republished with permission. .
Carol Andress鈥 husband gave her a Little Free Library kit for Christmas. She painted the wood box pastel blue and yellow, and the couple sank its post into the grass in front of their Bethesda house, under the shade of an old fig tree.
She hung a hand-painted sign: 鈥淭ake a book and/or leave a book.鈥
For more than a decade, Andress鈥 little library has served Bethesda鈥檚 Westgate community with free books. It鈥檚 part of a movement that in the last 20 years has planted tens of thousands of Little Free Libraries across the nation to encourage literacy and neighborliness.
But a few weeks ago, Andress found a notice from the county taped to the little library she tends so carefully, with new books every week and a fresh coat of paint whenever its colors dull.
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